British travelers

The more I increase my passion for travel literature, the more I become convinced that the center of true fascination for Western travelers was in "Arabia" and there was more than a call responded to by those coming from the heart of European civilization to that distant land... there was the "call of Islam" then "the call of the desert and its enchanting world" then "the image of the Arab knight" in Najd... and thousands of stories and legends that shaped the magic of the East... then this "absolute life" among multicolored sands, shadows, and the endless space, which stirred the imaginations of poets, writers, travelers, artists, and adventurers, all of whom belonged to one romantic era.